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2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Mechanics Major in the Great Lakes Region

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Schools for a Master's Highly Focused on Engineering Mechanics Major in the Great Lakes Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Mechanics Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Engineering Mechanics is the 308th most popular major in the country with 272 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, engineering mechanics graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $64,399 and had an average of $24,558 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 94 engineering mechanics graduates with average earnings and debt of $64,526 and $22,838 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 5 engineering mechanics graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,892 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Mechanics Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking looked at 8 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in engineering mechanics. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in engineering mechanics.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Mechanics Major in the Great Lakes Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Mechanics Major in the Great Lakes Region”.

Top 8 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Engineering Mechanics in the Great Lakes Region

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Northwestern University
Evanston, Illinois

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Northwestern University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Mechanics Major in the Great Lakes Region. Northwestern University is a large school located in Evanston, Illinois that handed out 3 masters’s engineering mechanics degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Wisconsin - Madison. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Mechanics Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Located in Madison, Wisconsin, this large public school awarded 2 diplomas to qualified masters’s engineering mechanics students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 95%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Cincinnati - Main Campus. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Mechanics Major in the Great Lakes Region. Located in Cincinnati, Ohio, this large public school handed out 2 degrees to qualified masters’s engineering mechanics students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 88%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Cleveland State University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Mechanics Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Cleveland State University is located in Cleveland, Ohio and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 masters’s engineering mechanics degrees to qualified students.

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Out of the 8 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Mechanics Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Michigan Technological University landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Houghton, Michigan, this medium-sized public school handed out 0 degrees to qualified masters’s engineering mechanics students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Mechanics Major in the Great Lakes Region. Located in Champaign, Illinois, this large public school awarded 38 diplomas to qualified masters’s engineering mechanics students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

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Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Michigan State University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Mechanics Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Michigan State University is a large school located in East Lansing, Michigan that handed out 1 masters’s engineering mechanics degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 91%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

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University of Dayton
Dayton, Ohio

Out of the 8 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Mechanics Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Dayton landed the #3 spot on the list. Dayton, Ohio is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s engineering mechanics degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.4% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

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